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As US Troops Depart, Is Afghanistan on the Brink of Civil War?

By Joseph Eyre In March, The International delved into the then-imminent withdrawal from Afghanistan by the US and its allies. We examined the tremendous costs of the conflict so far and the modest but hard-won gains achieved across two decades of continuous war. Though fraught with risk and uncertainty, there was a glimmer of hope […]

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End of an Error? The US Withdrawal from Afghanistan

By Joseph Eyre In February 2020, after many rounds of fraught and secretive negotiations, the United States and the Taliban finally reached an agreement and signed the “Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan.” After 19 years of war, the agreement provides for the complete withdrawal of US and allied troops by May 1st 2021, which […]